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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus and Tamsin Rose

Sydney dementia patient ‘didn’t sleep for months’ after police called to subdue her, family say

Norma Robertson
Norma Robertson, pictured just before she went into care. Her family say they were left oblivious to the deployment of police to help subdue Robertson at a dementia unit in Sydney in 2020. Photograph: supplied by Norma Robertson's daughter, Kirsty McGregor.

A family who say they were not told when police were deployed to help control their 79-year-old mother in a Sydney dementia unit are calling for a change to make it mandatory for family to be notified about the use of law enforcement.

On 4 June 2020, paramedics attempted to subdue an agitated Norma Robertson, who had only been in the care of the dementia unit at HammondCare in a Sydney suburb for about four weeks.

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